Cassette comprising a capping device and a cleaning device for an ink jet printer

Claim 1

A cassette comprising a capping device and a cleaning device for the capping and cleaning, respectively, of the jet nozzle surface (8) of a printing head (3) of an ink jet printer, said capping device comprising a drivable capping cushion (14) having an endless surface (13) and means for passing said endless surface (13) of said capping cushion (14) along a capping position (10) accessible through a window (9) in a wall (7) of said cassette, said cleaning device comprising a drivable cleaning tape (17), driving means for unwinding said cleaning tape (17) from a feed reel (16), for passing said cleaning tape (17) along a cleaning position (12) accessible through a window (17) in said wall (7) and for passing said cleaning tape (17) along a part of the surface (17) of said capping cushion (14) in order to remove contaminations from said surface (13), characterized in that said driving means comprises two rotatably journalled rollers (18, 19) cooperating at their circumferences to drive said cleaning tape (17), passing between and contacting said cooperating circumferences from said feed reel (16), first along a part of the surface (13) of said capping cushion (14), subsequently through the cleaning position (12) to said rollers (18, 19) and then to a storage space (20) formed in said cassette and wherein one of said rollers (18, 19) may be coupled to a drive device of said ink jet printer.